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The Eldis Blog
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30 January 2018This blog first appeared on the Institute of Development Studies website and is reposted with their permission.
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28 November 2017Every piece of research contains data whether qualitative or quantitative. How that data is derived and used varies from case to case. With increasing time pressures and a need to validate assumptions, there is growing concern that sound ethics are seen as a luxury but as a recent discussion at IDS concluded, good data ethics are essential if research is to have meaningful impact on lives.
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16 June 2017Bridging the gap between research, policy and practice is hardly a new imperative. At its heart is the virtue of research-based evidence informing policy and intervention design, which in turn increases the likelihood of desired outcomes.
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6 April 2017The terms evidence-based and evidence-informed policy have become commonplace in the development vernacular and many development actors, including Eldis, work to promote the use of research evidence in the design and delivery of development policies and practice.
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9 March 2017This article has been written by Anannya Chakraborty, Researcher, IPE Global - Centre for Knowledge and Development.
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9 March 2017This week we have a new blog post from Madhushala Senaratne writing ahead of the forthcoming session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61).
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18 October 2016This week we have a new blog post from Shilpi Jain, Communication & Knowledge Dissemination Expert at IPE Global, consultant and and co-author of the book “Reflections of Managing Water: Earth’s Greatest Natural Resource”.
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30 September 2016Rio 2016Welcome to this week's guest post from Daljeet Kaur, Associate Director, and Divyani Diddi, Research Assistant, from IPE Global, India. Here they look at some of the numbers behind this summer's Olympic Games.
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30 August 2016In this Blog from the Impact Initiative, Naomi Hossain explores the global politics of food provision.
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21 July 2016Our guest Blog on South-South cooperation is from Sushant Anand at IPE Global.
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14 July 2016On June 23rd Britain voted to leave the European Union. The subsequent multi-layered political and economic consequences of this decision will play out over the next months and years. Here we highlight a small selection of commentaries on what the result of the “Brexit” vote might mean for development aid, trade and Britain’s role within the development community.
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17 June 2016In the wake of World Environment Day 2016, Divyani Diddi, Researcher, IPE Global Centre for Knowledge and Development [IPE CKD], looks at Demand Mitigation as a means to control Illegal Wildlife Trade.